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BENGT M. W. HANSON, OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO PRATT & WHITNEY COMPANY, OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

METAL-SCREW MACHINE.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BENGT M. W. HANSON, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Hartford, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Metal- Screw Machines, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact specification.

This invention relates to improvements in the organization and in the details of machines of, the type now generally known as automatic screw machines, for making metal screws, studs, pins, and similar articles. In such machines a rod of stock is gripped by a chuck carried in a revolving spindle, with a suitable length of the rod proJecting beyond the end of the spindle. This projectmg end is operated upon in succession by suitable tools mounted in a revolving tool turret, which is turned at the proper intervals to bring the succeeding tools into operative relation to the rod and is fed forward at suitable times and at the proper speed for the proper operation of the respective tools. These tools turn the body, and sometimes the head of the screw, to their proper diameters, cut threads upon the body, point or cup the end of the screw, and otherwise complete it to the desired form, after which the screw is severed from the rod and transferred to auxiliary slotting or drilling mechanism, which cuts a slot in the head of the screw, or drills holes in it, according to requirements, while the other tools are operating upon the succeeding blank. As each completed blank is severed from the rod, the chuck is loosened to release the rod, the rod is fed forward to projectits new end a proper distance, the chuck is again closed, and the turret tools begin their work, this succession of operations being automatically repeated on the'rod until it is all used up,

when it is replaced by a new rod, and so on.

The important features of my present invention which in one of its preferred forms is shown in the accompanying drawings. include both the organization of the complete machine and details of its various parts.

'An important feature of the improved organization is that whereby the major or rincipal functions of the machine are performed by separate and practically inde pendent mechanisms, separately controlled from a central location. convenient and no cessible to the hand and eye of the operator,

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 30,1915.

who is thereby enabled to observe the timmg, both absolute and relative, of the several functions, and to adjust the controlling mechanism so that any function may be hastened or retarded, and otherwise performed in the time best suited to its own requirements, and in suitable succession and tnnerelation to the other functions, without altering the time of other mechanisms, or ad usting or replacing any of the cams or other actuating members. 1A further important feature is that whereby a supercontrol is exercised over the control devices, by which they are themselves advanced or retarded in accordance with the progress of the several functions separately controlled by the control devices.

Another important feature of this control system or arrangement resides in the drivmg and releasing connections between the control devices and the more outlying mechanisms for performing the various functions, whereby the directions indicated by the central control for independently starting and stopping the different mechanisms 80 are carried out with promptness and certainty. These connections, supplementing; the central control, establish a firm and definite although elastic and adjustable relation between all of the several functions and the mechanism for performin those functions, giving independent latitu e and adjustment to each function, while also confining each to the time assigned to it in the variable program. The advantages of such a system will a readily be seen by those familiar with this art when it is compared with former systems, in which the control as to time and movement of the parts is determined by cams having a fixed period of operation, or which are carried upon shafts having a fixed time or rate of rotation, or when compared with systems in which not all of the func tions are separately controlled, and are controlled from difierent portions or different shafts of the machine, more or less remote from each other; all stopping short of complete unitary, central, and independent control.

The invention further comprises various details of construction and arrangement, which contribute to the general advantage of the complete organization.

Some of the features shown and described, but not claimed in this application,

are shown, described and claimed in my copending application filed Apr. 25, 1914, and

serially numbered 834,321, 834,322, 834,323 and 834,324, respectively.

An improved embodiment of the present invention is shown in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a plan view, Fig. 2 a front view, Fig. 3 a rear view, F ig. 4 a left hand end view, and Fig. 5. a right hand end view, showing the general construction and arrangement of a complete machine. Fig. 6 is a plan. view, showing the driving mechanism for the several parts, serving as a convenient diagram for tracing their relative position and relation. Fig. 6 is a plan View, supplementary to Fig. 6, of the turret parts. Fig. 7 is an end view partly in section taken on the line 77 of Fig. 8, showing the mechanism for controlling and operating the main or stock carrying spindle. Fig. 8 is a front view, and Fig. 9 a plan view of the mechanism of Fig. 7, showing in addition thereto the mechanism for feeding forward the stock and opening and closing the chuck-for gripping that stock. Fig. 10 is an' end view projected from Fig. 9. Fig. 11 is an end view and Fig. 12 a rear view of the mechanism for removing the screws or other pieces as they are cut from the rod of stock, and for slotting them when desired. Fig. 13 is an end View, Figs. 14 and 15 are rear views, and Figs. 16 and 17 are plan views of the mechanism for controlling and operating the revolving turret, carrying the tools which operate upon the stock. Fig. 18 is an end view projected from Figs. 16 and 17, showing details of construction. Figs. 19 to 22 inclusive illustrate details of the mechanism for increasing and diminishing the speed or rate of progress of the machine.

Fig. 19 being an end view, Fig. 20 a rear View, and Fig. 21 a plan view of the operating and controlling mechanism, while Fig. 22 is an end view projected from Fig. 21. Fig. 22 is a sectional front view of the hand crank connection for operating the machine. Figs. 23 and 24 are plan views, and Fig. 25 is an end View of mechanism for controlling and correlating the operations of the slotting mechanism and the turret slide mechanism. Fig. 26 is a front View in section taken through its longitudinal center, of the clutch mechanism, for driving the mechanism at different speeds. Fig. 27 is an end view projected from Fig. 26 in section taken on theline 27 of that figure. Figs. 28, 29 and 30 show in larger scale the details of the clutch mechanism of Figs. 26 and 27. Fig. 28 is a sectional side view showing the clutch set to drive at the faster of its two speeds. Fig. 29 is an end view partly in section, and Fig. 30 is an edge view of one of the floating collars employed in connection with the clutch of Figs. 26, 27

and 28. Figs. 31 to 36 inclusive illustrate in various operative positions the details of the control mechanism employed for some of the functions of the machine, and which may be employed for any of those func' tions, as the conditions may make advisable. Fig. 31 is an end view, showing the mechanism stopped in one of the two positions in which it holds out of operation the mechanism controlled by it. Fig. 32 is a front view projected from Fig. 31. Fig. 33 is an end view similar to Fig. 31, but showing the control mechanism in the other of its two positions in which it holds out of operation the mechanism controlled by it. Fig. 34 is an end view, corresponding to a portion of Figs. 31 and 33, but showing its control mechanism in a position intermediate those shown in Figs. 31 and 32, in which the mechanism controlled by it is released and allowed to operate. Figs. 35 and 36 are end views in enlarged scale, showing the cams or star wheels employed for controlling the holding and releasing positions shown in Figs. 31, 33 and 34. Figs. 37 to 41 inclusive illustrate a modified construction of mechanism for controlling and operating the variable speed driving clutch of Figs. 26 and 27 Fig. 37 is an end view, showing the single revolution clutch in one of its resting positions. Fig. 38 is a plan view partly in section showing the clutch lever in one of its clutch positions. Fig. 39 is an end View projected from a portion of Fig. 38. Fig. 40 is an end view, in section taken on the line 40 of Fig. 38. Fig. 41 is a side view showing details of construction of a detent pin shown in Fig. 39. Figs. 42 to 45' inclusive represent the mechanism by which the turret may be released and turned by hand independently of the other mechanism. Fig. 42 isa front view in section taken through the vertical center of the turret. Fig. 43 is an end view projected from the lower portion of Fig. 42. Fig. 44 is an underneath view projected from Fig. 42. Fig. 45 is a side view in section taken through its longitudinal center, of a turret releasing knob. which may be employed upon the turret in place of that shown in Fig. 43 when no drilling attachment is used.

In the preferred embodiment of the present invention herein shown the parts are mounted upon a bed or frame 1. The main spindle head 2 and the turret slide 3 are mounted on the top of the bed, with the spindle 4 in line with the vertical axis of the turret 5. The turret slide is mounted on ways 6, on which it slides in a direction longitudinally of the spindle 4. The rearward end of the turret slide is provided with an anti-friction roll 7, which engages with suitably shaped cam pieces clamped to T-slots 8 cut in the periphery of the cam wheel 9, which is fixed to the cam shaft 10. That shaft extends lengthwise of the bed and its rearward end is preferably also supported outside of the cam wheel 9 by means of a removable bracket 11, which is secured to suitable projections of the bed 1. For the cam wheel 9 and its cam strips I prefer to use the adjustable cam strip construction shown and described in my Patent 855,773 7 of June 4, 1907, which need not be described in detail herein. The cam' roll 7 is secured to the turret slide by means of a bolt 14, which is clamped in a slot 15 in the rearward end of the turret slide, to facilitate adjusting the Slide to different longitudinal positions.

Means are provided for cushioning the sliding action of the turret. A projection 16 of the turret slide engages between plunger buffers 17 and 18, the latter of which is mounted'in a bracket 19 and is backed up by a suitable spring to form a cushioned stop for the rearward movement of the slide. The plunger 17 is mounted for sliding movement in the bracket 20 and is backed up by a compression spring of a length and tension suited to the weight and length of travel of the turret slide and its appurtenances. The spring may be made stilf enough to be the sole motive power for pushing the slide backwardly, in case cam strips are employed only behind the roll 7 to push it forward against the action of the said spring; and even where cam strips are used on both sides of the roller 7, the spring pressed plunger 17 may serve to take up whatever lost motion there the roll and the cam strips, thus insuring smoothness of action.

The main or work carrying spindle 4 is mounted in the head 2, and is arranged to be rotated in forward and reverse directions or at different speeds in the same direction, by means of pulleys 26 and 27 which are driven by Suitable belts from any convenient countershaft, one or the other of the pulleys being clutched to the shaft by any suitable well-knownclutch mechanism operated by the clutch sleeve 28 and the yoke 29, by means to be hereinafter described.

The rod of stock 30 tobe operated upon is gripped by any suitable and well-known chuck or collet'mechanism carried by the main spindle 4, and operated through the collar 31 by means of the yoke 32, which is moved at proper times to open and close the chuck or collet by mechanism to be hereinafter described in its proper place. When the "chuck is opened or loosened the rod of stock 30 is fed forward by means of a feed tube 33 of any suitable or well-known construction which is connected with a feed slide 34 mounted on the stud 35, projecting from the head 2. The slide 34 is provided with a dog 36, which is hinged to the feed slide 34 and fits in a grooved collar 37 of the 'ing omitted for clearness.

may be between feed tube 33, this hinged construction permitting. the dog to be swung out of the groove when it is desired to withdraw the feed tube.

The general character and relation of the driving and control mechanism for the various functions of the machine are best shown in Fig. 6, which is a plan view, showing the control disks and the principal shafting and gearing; the bearings and other parts be- The main driving shaft 40 rotates in hearings on the bed 1 and is provided with a pulley 41 which is driven by a belt from any convenient motor or shaft. The shaft 40 rotates continuously and has fixed upon it the gear 42, driving the gear 43 on the shaft 44, furnishing constantly running motive power for driving the intermittently operating mechanism shown in Figs. 8, 9 and 10 for opening and closing the chuck in the main spindle 4, and feeding forward the rod or work 30 to be operated upon. The gear 45, fixed on the shaft 40, drives the gear 46 and thus furnishes constant running motive power for the intermittent driving of the mechanism shown in Figs. 7 to 10 inclusive for moving the clutch yoke 29 to drive the main spindle 4 in its forward or reverse directions or at different speeds, as required. The worm 48 meshing with the wheel 49 fixed on the shaft 50 furnishes constantly running motive power for the intermittent driving of the mechanism shown in detail in Figs. 11 and 12 for transferring and slotting the screws, or for performing any operation on them. v

The bevel gear 51 fixed on the shaft 40 meshes with the bevel gear 52 on the shaft 53, and transmits constant rotation to a train of gearing employed for the variable driving of the main cam wheel 9, its shaft 10 and the central control devices for controlling the successions, and periods of operation of the various functions performed by the machine.

The gear 55 fixed on the shaft 40 drives the gear 56 on the shaft 57 and furnishes a constantly running motive power for the intermittent operation of the clutch mechanism shown in Figs. 21, 22 and 26 to 30 inclusive, for varying the speed at which the main cam wheel 9 and the central control devices are driven. The gear 60 fixed on the shaft 40 drives the gear 61 and furnishes constantly running motive power forthe intermittent operation of the mechanism shown in detail in Figs. 13 to 18 inclusive for unlocking,

other supplemental rotating and relocking the tool turret 5. These driving and connecting following the description.

at their maximum efiiciency, without afi'ecting the time of starting each into operation, which latter is otherwise controlled, as will be hereinafter described.

The shaft 10 extending lengthwise of the bed has fixed upon its left hand end the gear 63 meshing with the gear 64: of the shaft 65, which has upon it the adjustable control devices by means of which the periods and thesuccession of operation of the various mechanisms are initially controlled. These devices in the present instance consist of a series of plates or disks A, B, C, D and E, which are secured to the shaft 65 to turn therewith, and are provided with dogs or tappets seated in slots extending circumferentially around the disks, in which the various tappets may be adjusted and clamped at the proper positions for initiating the respective movements or functions controlled by them. These disks, and the mechanisms directly controlled by them are herein shown to be varied in construction and mode of operation to suit the various functions, or to suit the characteristics of the mechanisms which perform those functions, a detailed description of which will next be given.

For convenience of illustration and description the machine is dissected and the different mechanisms are shown on different sheets, to which reference should be made in The main clutch mechanism for operating the yoke 29 to engage the main spindle 4: with the pulleys 26 or 27 to drive the spindle in its forward or reverse direction is best shown in Figs. 7, 8 and 9. The yoke 29 is pivoted at 70 on the bed or frame of the machine, with its upper forked ends engaging a groove in the clutch sleeve 28, preferably by means of shoes 71. The lower end of the lever is provided with a suitable pin or roller engaging with a groove in the cam 79.

on the shaft 44, by means of which the yoke 29 is moved back and forth to clutch the main spindle 4 into engagement with its forward and reverse driving pulleys 26 and 27, as may be required by the character of the work to be done. The contour of the groove in the cam 72 is suited for moving the levers into clutching relation to the pulley 26 during one-half of a rotation of the cam. and into clutching relation to the pulley 27 at the other half of the cam rotation. Therefore. provision is made for intermittently rotating the cam 72 half a revolution at suitable intervals, and holding it station ary at those two positions, generally diametrically opposite, at which the cam path holds the yoke 29 in its two extreme or clutching positions. The mechanism for stopping the cam at the proper positions, carrying it forward again to the next position and for controlling the times at which these movements take place, and the intervals between them, is shown in connection with Figs. 7, 8 and 9, some portions being also shown in enlarged scale and in differ ent operative positions in Figs. 31 to 36 inclusive. A driving dog 7& is pivoted at 75 on the end face of the cam 72, or a flange appurtenant thereto, and overlies a ratchet wheel 76, which is secured to the side of the constantly running gear 46. A spring 77 bearing against the rearward endof the dog 7st tends to carry its forward hooked end intd engagement witht he passing teeth of the ratchet 76, as shown in Fig. 34, this tendency being overcome, for the purpose of stopping the cam at its two resting positions, by a pair of oppositely disposed detents 78 and 79, held in the bifurcated ends of a control lever pivotally supported on the shaft 81, supported by the bed. i The detents 78 and 79 operate alternately upon the dog 74, as shown in Figs. 31 and 33, to detach it from the ratchet 7 6 to stop the rotation of the cam 72, holding it stationary during the desired period, at the end of which the control lever 80 is oscillated, releasing the dog 74 from one detent after bringing the opposite detent within the circle of revolution 69 of the dog, (Fig. 34) which upon being released from the first detent engages with a passing tooth of the ratchet 76, which carries the detent and with it the cam 72, as shown in Fig. 34, through half a revolution, to the position shown for example, in Fig. 33, colliding then with the next detent, which retracts the dog 7t and holds it, along with the cam 72, again in a stationary position for the required period, and so on. A springpressed pawl 82 mounted in an adjacent arm or bracket of the framing engages alternately with oppositely disposed notches in the periphery of the cam 72, as shown in Figs. 31 and 33, thus preventing the cam from turning backwardly from those positions when its forward movement is stopped by the detents 78 or 79, this tendency to turn backwardly being due to the pressure of the spring 77 against the rearward end of the dog 74; acting between the pivot 75 and the detent. This backward turning movement,

74 in the direction to which it is carried by its unlatching movement. The rearward edge of the end of the pawl 82 is beveled, to enable it to ride out of the notch When'the cam 72 starts forward.

The oscillating movement of thecontrol lever 80'is in this instance shown to be imparted by tappets 81 secured to the control disk C and engaging like a single "gear tooth with the star wheel or pinion 85 which is mounted for rotation on ashaft or stud 86 supported by' arms 87 from a bracket 88. Side by side with and secured to the star wheel 85 is the cam or Wiper 89, which engages with the suita bly shaped end of a cam pin 90 removably secured in the forward end of the control lever 80. An ad-- justable stop screw 95 in the lever 80 abutting against a fixed pin 96 enables the lower position of the lever shown in Figs. 7 and 31 to be adjustably maintained, and a spring-pressed plunger 97 mounted in a suitable fixed portion of the frame holds the lever 80 yieldingly down against the stop pin 96. The cam or wiper 89 is provided with a succession of lobes with depressions I between them, these lobes o crating during the step-'by-step advanceoi the cam 89 to alternately raise the lever to the position shown in Fig. 33, and let it back again to the position shown in Fig. 31. The referred form of these cam lobes and t eir successive positions is best shown in the enlarged Views Figs. 35 and 36. The an lar extent of each advance movement is s own bythe radial lines 91, and the lobes are preferably arranged to move the lever 80 at or -near the beginning of each advancing movement. Notches 98 are preferably made in the raised portions of the cam lobes to receive the point of the cam pin 90, as shown in Fig-36 to retain the cam in that position and prevent accidental displacement during thetime that the tappets 84 are out of engagement with the star wheel 85. That star Wheel is herein shown to be provided with ten teeth. and it is advanced a distance of one tooth by each of the tappets 84, a

number. of these tappets being provided, suited to the numberof times the clutch yoke 29 must be operated for each piece of work made, the shaft s65being geared to the again' closed at the proper periods, is best illustrated in Figs. 8, 9 and 10. The collar 3l'is appurtenant to a sleevewhich'extends through the main spindle 4 and operates a chuck or collet within that spindle in any well-known way, by the longitudinal movement of the collar and sleeve, that longitudinal movement being imparted by the yoke the time of the opening and 82, which is pivotally mounted at 101 on the bed or framing, and is provided with cam arms 102, 103, which extend in difi'erent planes on opposite sides of the cam shaft 10l, and engage with diilerent cams thereon,

the arm 102 engaging with the cam 105, and the arm 103 engaging with the cam 106, preferably using the customary anti-friction rollers. The two cams 105 and 106 are of contours suited for rocking the yoke 32 at suitable times for opening and closing the chuck, leaving the arms free at the resting positions of the cams, as shown in Fig. 8, to allow the chuck to be opened and closed by hand, it being sometimes desirable to remove the work t'or examination before cutting it from the rod.

The cam shaft 104 is mounted in suitable bearings in the bed, and is provided with a gear 107, which meshes with the gear 108, which in turn is driven by a pair of spiral gears 109 and 110. The latter gear is mounted on the shaft 111, which is supported in suitable bearings, and has upon its opposite end a flange 112, which has pivotally mounted thereon a dog 113, overlying a constantly rotating ratchet 11% carried by the side of the gear 43 (Figs. 7, 8 and 9). This stop and releasing mechanism is similar to that already described in connection with Figs. 31 to 36 inclusive. A. control lever 115 pivoted on the shaft 81 is provided at its forward end with a cam pin 116, engaging with a lobed cam 11? driven by a star wheel 118 and tappets 119 on the control disk A. The construction and mode of operation of this stop release and control mechanism is so nearly identical with that previously de-. scribed in connection with Figs. 31 to 36 inclusive that no further specific description of this set of mechanism is needed. In this case, however, with the single lobed cams 105 and 106 herein shown, the ratio of gearing between the flange 11.? and the cam shaft 104 should be such as to impart a complete rotation to the shaft 104 for each half rota tion of the flange 112, and a single tappet 119 should be employed on the controlling disk A so as to allow one complete rotation of the cam shaft 104 for each. piece of work completed, corresponding to a single rotation of the control shaft 65. Obviously, however, this arrangement may be modified, using dii ferent cam contours and a suitable number of tappets, according to the number and character of the movements required for each piece of work completed.

The mechanism for feeding the rod of stock forward through the chuck or collet while the latter is I related to the chuck opening and closing movements, is herein shown to be controlled as to the time of its operations by the control mechanism employed same 101' controlling closing move opened, being so directly "L 

